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Regulating Biorhythm and Eatinghttp://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17249-Regulating-Biorhythm-and-Eating&goto=newpost
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:00:26 GMTIt was hard to come up with a title for my thread but I need help and suggestions with something. I probably mentioned it before in other threads...It was hard to come up with a title for my thread but I need help and suggestions with something. I probably mentioned it before in other threads but I have gained all the weight back I had lost when I was working at Wholefoods a few years back. Probably close to 15 lbs now. I don't "look" fat (at least my boyfriend says I don't) but I don't like how it feels. It just more weight that I have to haul around so I don't feel lithe and sprightly like I used to.

There are so many reasons for all this: I drink a lot more alcohol than I used to, I don't move around nearly as much because I live and work in the same building, grocery shopping is harder due to the distance involved with having fresh vegetables, cooking is harder in my tiny kitchen, I often trade cooking duties and meals with my boyfriend so I have less control, plus all the traumas of the past year, which include my daughter's death and the two surgeries, plus ongoing issues with my hip and glut muscles. And I am smack dab in the middle of my menopause year.

So, after I get back from Florida (leaving tomorrow morning and staying six days) I really want to focus on getting better organized with my shopping, cooking and eating habits. I think the biggest problem I have is that my kitchen (and refrigerator) are literally steps away from where I live and work all day. I find that I do really well in the morning with good intentions of eating a decent breakfast (usually oatmeal with an apple, some walnuts and raisins), a pretty good lunch (either leftovers or a salad) but by 3 o'clock my biorhythm takes a plummet and I get really sleepy/almost cranky. If it is a slow day in the gallery I can lie down on my bed (and listen for the bell on the door to ring), but it also seems like between 3 and 5:30 is when I CRAVE eating and that is when I start randomly snarfing things. Mostly it is healthy stuff, like a Larabar, or pickles, or a WASA cracker ( and cheese, if I happen to have some. I try not to buy it on a regular basis) but once I start it is really hard to stop snacking. If it is a particularly bad day I lock the door to the shop and go up to the general store and grab some kind of snack. Lately it has been a pack of Peanut Butter M&M's...

We don't usually eat dinner until 7pm, so I am trying to figure out a way to stay away from the cupboards or refrigerator from 3 to 7pm. Since it is slowly starting to get warmer, at least when I close the shop at 5pm I can start going for a hike for an hour or so before I start dinner. But to stay away from snacking before that is the hard part.

Any suggestions? It is hard for me to eat at exact certain times because when the gallery is busy during the day it is actually hard to know when I'll be able to even go in the back and get something for lunch. In the summer I have to be well organized about it and pretty much have it made before hand so I can just grab it. Heck, sometimes it is so busy that I can't even take a bathroom break!

I should add, I would really like to get down to around 160 lbs (I'm 5'9"). So we are talking about 8 - 10lbs.
]]>SiouzQ.http://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17249-Regulating-Biorhythm-and-EatingToo much glue on bandaidshttp://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17226-Too-much-glue-on-bandaids&goto=newpost
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:49:43 GMTI know part of it is that my skin has become so fragile. I have splits in my skin right next to my fingernails and have learned to make my own...I know part of it is that my skin has become so fragile. I have splits in my skin right next to my fingernails and have learned to make my own bandaids, because the "real" ones were too hard to pull off.

I poked myself on my hand with a knife accidentally yesterday and thought I'd use one of the bandaids, since it would just be in a straight line on my hand and not around a finger. Well, when I tried to gently pull it off, it pulled about an inch of skin off. OUCH.

Seems like all the different types of bandaids now-a-days just have too strong a glue on them. Anyone else seeing this? Or is it just part and parcel of being an old fart? :(
]]>CathyAhttp://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17226-Too-much-glue-on-bandaidsodd memories of breakdownhttp://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?17220-odd-memories-of-breakdown&goto=newpost
Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:00:48 GMTI remember my breakdown in fuzzy tones, layers of blankets, sleepiness and unfocused brain. I remember the chair I spent a lot of time in, the light...I remember my breakdown in fuzzy tones, layers of blankets, sleepiness and unfocused brain. I remember the chair I spent a lot of time in, the light was diffuse in the basement room I had. I ate and took medication and felt like throwing up, and went back to sleep. I didn't read, I really couldn't, I didn't talk about my problems, what was there left to talk about. I took walks or ran across the street, I couldn't figure out how to get around town and not get lost.

There is something oddly comforting about thinking about that time. Everything was just turned OFF. I was deeply healing, not agitated at all, and still doing basic care things like eating, sleeping, cleaning up,

It is just a strange feeling, and somewhat comforting to think of that time.
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